Attachment-holder device for fence-posts



(No Model.)

A E. S. BRADFORD. ATTACHMENT HOLDER DEVIGE FOR FENCE POSTS, POLBS, 8w.

Patented 0013.31, 1893.

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

EUGENE S. BRADFORD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ATTACHMENT HOLDER DEVICE FOR FENCE-POSTS, POLES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,966, dated October 31, 1893.

Application filed October 5, 1892. Serial No. 447,866- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE S. BRADFORD, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Attachment-Holder Devices for Fence-Posts, Telegraph -Poles, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention. relates to sheet or cast metal tubular or other hollow fence and hitching posts and telegraph and other poles, that are provided with elongated vertical slots at the several heights to which the wires, rods, or

cables as the case maybe are to be mounted, with holder attachments for said mount. The

said holder attachments have curved inner arms, that when presented in registering position with said elongated slots freely enter the same, and are turned .a quarter round transverse of said slots into their clamping position within said post or pole, the said holder having also outer arms that are then bent around to embrace the same externally. An outwardly projecting neck of the central stem forms one support for the wire or other mount outside said outer arms and said neck carries a retainer disk, connected with which disk and projecting therefrom there is a ring, the two overlapping hooks of which constitute the equivalent of an open-or split ring, which also makes anefticient holder for cables or other mounts; and the invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a horizontal section, and shows a transverse section of the post or pole with the Wire or other mount holder attachment secured thereto having a horizontal ring. Fig. II is a detail elevation of the post or pole and in the lower portion of said figure is shown the transitional position of the mountholder, ..when seated in the elongated slot,

just previous to being turned into its clamping position, its outer arms stretching in a straight vertical position, and having a horizontal ring and in the upper portionof the view a holder having a vertical ring is shown turned round into its clamping position, and said previously straight arms bent around the periphery of the post or pole, the base of the rings being shown in section on the faces of the retainer disks. Fig. III is a vertical section, taken on line III-III, Fig. II, and shows the post or pole with its elongated slot, and the holder in its ultimate clamping position in the same, the ring being shown part in circumferential section where the vertical section line divides it; and Fig. IV is a vertical section, taken on line IV-IV Fig. II and shows the holder in its transitory position just after insertion, and previous to turning into its clamping position.

Referring to the drawings: 1 represents the metal tubular or hollow post or pole and 2 are elongated slots therein.

3 represents the combination attacher and holder device, which is made of malleable iron or other suitable metal, and is constituted of the following integral parts: namely the cenments, and for any attachments in which barb and other fencing wires and metal strips as also metal rods are secured to posts for fencing, divisional, and hitching purposes; and

' for cable and wire attachments to telegraph and telephone poles, it being evident that glass and other insulators of ordinary construction may be used where bare electric wires are to be attached, and that there being no novelty in said insulators, they are not particularly shown and described. Also it will be understood that when describing the operation of attachment to a hollow or tubu-v lar post, the same description applies as definitely to the attachment to a telegraph or telephone pole or other object of attachment, to save needless repetition, and that I do not confine myself to the round form of the post as shown in the drawings, as the term tubular is used in its broad sense to define a hollow body of any shape, as in tubular bridges curved clamp arms 5, on the inner ends of.

the central stems 4, of the holders 3, are presented in a vertical registering direction to and through the vertical elongated slots 2 (see Fig. IV and the lower attachment in Fig.

II),-and the holder with said clamp arms is then turned a quarter round, which brings said armsin transverse position across, and

to each side of said elongated slot, thusfirmly securing the attachment of the holder, the convex curved-sides of saidarms fitting the concaveinner surface of the tubular post, (seeFigs. I and III and in broken linesin the upperattachment ofFig. II.) The outer embracingarms 6, which also reachout'integrally from said central stem 4, and the holder with-its clamping arms are madepreferably as stated of malleableiron, said arms 6 being bent around so as closely to embrace.the-periphery of the post (see Fig. I and the upper attachment of Fig. II). The holderis thus tightly held from both within and without: said tubularpost. I

If the construction is forsabarb or other wire ormetal strap fencathe line of wireor strap as the case may be is mounted on the bearer neck support 7, and at certain intervals along'the line the tensionof the wire is maintained after stretching'taut byaturn or belaying of saidwire around said bearer neck 7 of the holder, and the disk headS of said holder retains the wire in position on its seat. The double overlapping hooks9, which in connection form the openor split ring 10 project integrally from saiddisk-head '8,as shown in all the figures, a full view-being shown in Fig. I, sections-of the'base stems of the hooks being shown in Fig. II, and vertical curvilinear sections of said overlapping hooks shown in Figs. III and IV, the said section lines in the two last named figures havingcut awaythe overlapping points of the upper hooks. When the holder is for use with barb wire fences, or clothes line supports, the said overlapping hooks 9 that constitutethe open or split ring 10 mayif'desired be dispensed with, and then the retainer diskS constitutes the outer finish to the holder. When, however, the device is used for suburban or residence fences in cities, the said open ring is preferably an element thereof, as it provides a convenient means as a holder at-,

tacliment for the ornamentalhorizontal bars that enter into the construction of the fence and the extreme ends of said rods may have mutual half cut away joints within said ring. Also the overlapping points of thehooks being preferably of malleable iron are readily closed. around said fence rods to effect a tight grip of the same. Hitch posts are also thus to be constructed, and the open ring 10 when closed makes a convenient tie ring for hitching. When, however, the horses of a large number of vehicles are to be hitched in the neighborhood of some general resort, as a city hall, hitch bars are inserted and firmly held Within the closed open rings 10, in connection with a line of posts. v

, When used as a holder attachment for telegraph and telephone hollow or tubular poles the said poles are provided with the same form of elongated slots as are the fence posts, said slots beinglocated at such andas many of such points of elevation as it is required for the electric cable or wire to traverse, and the attachment holders are secured in *said elongated slots and to said poles ashasbeen already described in relation -to the fence ,posts.

It will be seen that glass or other insulators roan readily'be seouredin the'open ringsby bending the points of 1 the double overlapping shookswithin the outer grooves of saidlinsulators. If it is desired to-stretch bare wires through said holder rings, wires or cables can be passed throughthe overlapping'hooksinto theopen rings, while other cables may be 1 seated on the 1 bearer neck "7.

The I hollow or tubular posts and poles may be made of any desired form in cross-section, round, rectangular, angular, octagonal, .&c., to best suit the especial purpose for which said posts or poles are to be used. Also theinner clamping and outer embracing arms respectively 5 and 6, itis evident are easily made conformable to the respective inner and outer surfaces of the posts or poles to which theyare attached.

The open orsplitholder rings 10, may be secured to the fence orhitchpost, or to the telegraph or telephone pole,in either a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. I, being arranged to be turned into said horizontal position, as-shownin the=1ower portion of Fig. II and in Fig. IV, or they maywhen the exigencies of the casefrequentlymake it preferable, be secured in a vertical position as shown in the upper portion of'Fig.II and in Fig. III.

I claim as my invention- 1. In fence posts telegraph poles, &O., the combination of the tubular post or pole 1, and the central attachment stem 4 having a suitable wire holder integral therewith, and the are shaped inner clamp arms 5, that'hold inside said tubular post or pole; substantially as described.

2. In attachmentholder devices for fence posts, telegraph poles, 850., the combination of the hollow posts or poles, provided with the elongated slots 2, the cable and wire attachment holder having the central stem '4, V the inner curve arms 5 and outer embracing;

the bearer neck 7, and the retainer disk head 8, substantially as described.

5. In attachment holder devices for fence posts, telegraph poles, 850., the central stem 4 of the cable and wire holder 3, the inner clamp arms 5, the outer embracing arms 6, 20 the bearer neck 7 and the double overlapping hooks 9 that form the open or split bearer ring 10; substantially as described.

6. In fence posts, telegraph poles, &c., the combination of the hollow post or pole 1, pro- 2 5 vided with the elongated attachment slot 2, and the cable and. wire holder 3 consisting of the central stem 4:, the curved inner clamp arms 5, the outer embracing arms 6, the cable and wire bearerneck 7, and the overlapping o hooks 9, constituting an open or split ring 10; substantially as described.

EUGENE S. BRADFORD. In presence of- Y i BENJN. A. KNIGHT, ED. S. KNIGHT. 

